SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of professional experience in Enterprise Application Integration using IBM Websphere MQ and Websphere Message Broker.
• Involved in Installation, configuration, upgrading, development, remote technical support, troubleshooting and system administration of WebSphere MQ and WMB
• Experience in Planning, Installation and Administration of Websphere MQ, Websphere Message Broker on various platforms like Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, AS/400, HP - UX and Windows NT/2000, 2003 server, XP platforms.
• Installing and configuring MQ 5.3, 6.0, 7.0 and 7.5 on various platforms
• Updating MQ Series V5.3 to V7.0 in various platforms.
• Expertise in installing and setting up Q/Process monitoring tools such as Qpasa and Appwatch.
• Expertise in writing shell scripts on various platforms like AIX and Solaris to monitor WMQ
• Set up the MQ security for users and groups using setmqaut utility.
• Expertise in setting up the SSL Security.
• Experienced in design and architecture of integrating enterprise applications.
• Extensive experience with MQ Clustering, MQ Client / Server setup, MQSeries System Administration and documentation, putting PMRs and installing iFixs and Fixpacks
• Expertise in writing ANT scripts to deploy Message Flows and Message Sets.
• Hands on experience in design and implementation of WMQ and WBIMB in huge and complex environments using High Availability Clustering.
• Installing, configuring and testing WMB 6.x, 7.x and 8.x on various platforms
• Experience in working with RDBMS like, DB2, ORACLE and SQL Server.
• Experience in application design using Unified Modeling language (UML), Sequence diagrams, Case diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), Data Flow Diagrams (DFD).
• Expertise in working with XML, DTD, XSL, XPATH, XSD.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, AS/400OS/390, Windows NT/2000, 2003, XP/2008R2.

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, ESQL

MQ Series Family: WMQ, WMB, Workflow.

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL server, MS Access.

IDE tools: WSAD, Visual Studio.NET

Scripting Languages: XML, HTML, DHTML, Java Script.

Application Servers: WebSphere, Apache.

XML tools: XML SPY, Stylus Studio, SoapScope for Webservices testing

Monitoring tools: Qpasa, Omegamom, Tivoli

Version Control Tools: CVS, Rational ClearCase, Harvest.

Testing Tracking Tools: Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Sr. MQ/Broker Administrator

Environment: WMQ 7.0, 7.1, 7.5, WMB 7.0, 8.0, AIX, Windows 2003/2008R2, LINUX, Solaris, ZOS, DB2, J2EE, QPASA

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WMQ products on AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Administered the WMQ Objects like Queue Manager, Queues, Channels and Process Definitions.
• Setup Message Broker on Linux and AIX servers
• Created and deployed Bar files into the execution groups
• Installing the latest patches and fixes in MQ and broker software
• Worked on the clusters and High availability clustering to achieve the workload balancing of the messages and to make the administration task easy.
• Develop, document and implement contingency plans
• Implemented XA on MQ queue manager configured MB to use external databases like Oracle and DB2.
• Implement Restart and Recovery procedures and worked with TSM in the process.
• Configured and created queue managers, message queues, channels, process definitions and triggers.
• Implemented the clustering environment in MQ to achieve Workload balancing and to make the administrative task easy.
• Setup remote administration of all the Queue managers.
• Routine Cluster Checkups and Cleanups.
• Performance monitoring, administrating and troubleshooting any issues related to MQ installation, MQ objects.
• Installed and configured Message Broker on Windows 2000, AIX, Linux servers.
• Developed Channel exits and SSL channels on AIX, Linux servers.
• Developed shell scripts in Linux for checking the health status of the WMQ.
• Provide security by using Object Authority Manager.
• Setup MQ and Message Broker Pub/Sub environments
• Setup Message Broker domains and collectives.
• Applied MQ fix packs 7.0.1.6 on UNIX platforms
• Backup, recovery and trouble shooting for WMQ/WMQI.
• Developed automation scripts for MQ/MB start and stop.
• Monitored the WMQ objects using TEP.
• Provided 24/7 production support for MQ, Broker issues, and day to day application support.

Confidential, SFO, CA

MQ/Broker Administrator

Environment: WMQ, WMB, WebSphere, AIX, Windows 2003/2008R2, LINUX, ZOS, DB2, J2EE, ESQL, QPASA

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WMQ products on AIX, Linux, Unix and Windows platforms.
• Administered the WMQ Objects like Queue Manager, Queues, Channels and Process Definitions.
• Setup Message Broker on Linux and AIX servers
• Created and deployed Bar files into the execution groups
• Installing the latest patches and fixes in MQ and broker software
• Worked on the clusters and High availability clustering to achieve the workload balancing of the messages and to make the administration task easy.
• Develop, document and implement contingency plans
• Implement Restart and Recovery procedures and worked with TSM in the process.
• Routine Cluster Checkups and Cleanups.
• Performance monitoring, administrating and troubleshooting any issues related to MQ installation, MQ objects.
• Installed and configured Message Broker on Windows 2000, AIX, Linux servers.
• Instrumented the message flows with ESQL coding by adding Timer nodes for performance evaluations.
• Developed Channel exits and SSL channels on AIX and Windows 2003, 2008R2 MQ servers to provide security features.
• Developed shell scripts in AIX for checking the health status of the WMQ.
• Provide security by using Object Authority Manager.
• Backup, recovery and trouble shooting for WMQ/WMQI.
• Developed automation scripts and Recovery procedures for MQ fail over and disaster recovery using candle and IBM utilities
• Monitored the WMQ objects using the Qpasa monitoring tool.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Middleware Administrator

Environment: IBM MQ Series, Message Broker, OS/390, Solaris, Windows 2000, DB2, J2EE, XML, WebSphere, MQ Series for Java, QPASA, AIX, HP Unix.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured MQ Series on Solaris, AIX, Z/OS and Windows 2003.
• Created and allocated pagesets in the Z/OS servers
• Configured syslogs and supported MQ on the Z/OS servers
• Created the bindings file in MQ for the JMS applications
• Installed and configured Message Broker on AIX, Solaris and Linux.
• Performed Administration tasks using MQSC commands.
• Created and deployed bar files in the broker
• Setup Broker domains and execution groups
• Setup security in broker by using access control lists
• Setup security in MQ using OAM and SSL
• Setup Veritas clustering for the high availability of the MQ servers
• Processed multiple simultaneous data transfers and can broadcast single or multiple files simultaneously over multiple channels to multiple recipients.
• Integrated files and databases on distributed and legacy systems across the enterprise.
• Setup Omegamon Monitoring for the OS and MQ series objects.
• Developed procedures for daily operation of MQ Series on OS/390, Sun Solaris, HP UNIX, AIX, and Window 2003.
• Implemented the clustering environment to achieve Workload balancing and to make the administrative task easy.
• Configured MQ Series network using clustering, distributed queuing and remote administration.
• Preparing automated scripts for queue manager setup.
• Updating and migrating qmanager attributes from MQ V5.3 to V6.0
• Coordinating and documenting software installation/upgrades, production configuration changes and implementation of security updates.
• Developed shell scripts in UNIX.
• Developed automation and monitoring Scripts in conjunction with QPASA for MQ Fail over, Disaster recovery, backup and error handling
• Assign the message flows to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime Environment
• Developed trigger applications using Java which are deployed in the Process definition to implement the triggering mechanism.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

MQ Administrator

Environment: IBM MQ Series 5.3, XML, MQ Series C/C++ APIs, Java, QPASA, DB2, OS/390, AIX, Windows2000.

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of MQ Series Client and Server on AIX, Windows 2000 and OS/390
• Defined and Maintained MO objects using MQSC commands.
• Worked on clustering and high availability cluster multi-processing (HACMP) on AIX by reducing the administrative task and balancing the work load
• Implemented MQ security using SSL certificates.
• Experience in monitoring the various MQ Series objects like queues, channels, listeners etc using QPASA.
• Developed and administered the different messaging types like Point-To-point and Pub/Sub messaging.
• Performed design, development, debugging, trouble shooting and performance tuning using various support packs.
• Developed client applications using MQ Series C/C++ and MQ Java APIs that perform business transactions among business allies using FIX format.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking on various levels of development of test environments.
• Experience as 24 x 7 administrator on the production environment for MQ Series/WMQ.
• Created self-styled applications that generate messages dynamically and evaluates the queue depth on the HACMP environment for AIX.
• Developed and maintained test plan design and implementation to verify accuracy of solutions. Developed scalable and reliable messaging/queue managers needed to model, integrate, automate, and manage efficient and flexible business processes at the enterprise level.
• Participated in problem identification and resolution on development, test, acceptance, and production servers.
• Developed setup scripts to backup Queue Manager, its object definitions and authorizations.